Re: [ecf-dev] R-OSGi provider bug

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bryan,

Bryan Hunt wrote:
> Scott,
>
> I think I've run into a bug in the R-OSGi provider in ECF 3.1.  In RemoteServiceImpl.callSync(), I'm getting an NPE on call.getParameters().length because the parameters are null.  It appears that this problem has been fixed in HEAD as the code now checks the parameters for null.  Getting just the org.eclipse.ecf.provider.r_osgi bundle from HEAD will not work as there are enough changes that there are compile errors.  What are your recommendations on getting a new (stable) version of ECF that contains this fix?  Get all of ECF from HEAD?
>   

Yes, until we produce a 3.2 release this is the thing to do.  It 
won't/shouldn't be necessary to get all of ECF, but it will be necessary 
to get the OSGI remote services impl, the remote services API, and the 
new versions of ECF core (because there are some new things in the core 
that the OSGi remote services impl depend upon).  You can get all of the 
ECF bundles into workspace using the project set file available in 
org.eclipse.ecf.releng project.  Here's instructions for this [1].

I'll take this opportunity to put this question out to the broader 
community: 

I think we should probably do a ECF 3.2 release *before* Helios.  I 
would suggest toward the end of February/early March...i.e. before 
EclipseCon 2010.  If this is to happen, however, I/we need some 
additional committers and/or contributors/community members to step up 
and provide some help contributing to the build/release work to make 
this happen.  Ted, Markus, and I have been doing most of the releng work 
for ECF, and I think we could spread some more of this 
necessary-but-not-glamorous releng work around.

I'll add this question (whether/when to have a 3.2 release) to next 
week's ECF conference call [2].  If you have some thoughts/suggestions 
about this please say so here, add a comment to the call agenda/notes,  
and/or attend the conference call.

Thanks,

Scott

[1] http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/dev_resources.php
[2] http://wiki.eclipse.org/ECF_Conference_Call_1.11.2010